Getting Grounded; Vuforia Introduces Ground Plane Detection

With its release of its latest AR platform last fall, Vuforia announced the addition of object recognition and ground plane detection, along with support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore.  Until relatively recently, targets have provided a stable, if not totally satisfactory base for AR objects to stick to (for lack of a better word this minute). They’re not totally satisfactory because they they have to be defined and set up within the application and even printed and attached sometimes to real life targets. However, in the case of industrial AR, they’re helpful because they’re precise and can be attached